Award

Foundry's Mari honored in annual Scientific and Technical Awards

Foundry, leading creative software developer, has announced that its Mari development team will be honored by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the annual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Saturday, February 13. The awards recognize individuals that have added value to the filmmaking process.

For their contributions to Mari's development, Jack Greasley, Kiyoyuki Nakagaki, Duncan Hopkins and Carl Rand from Foundry will receive an Academy Plaque in the Scientific and Engineering Awards category at the ceremony to be held at the Beverley Wiltshire in Beverly Hills.

Mari®, a high-end texture painting application, was developed specifically for visual effects and CG. It has been used in the production of films including Avatar, The Avengers, Academy Awardwinner Gravity and Jurassic World among others. In 2015, Foundry software was used in the creation of all the nominated films in the 2015 Academy Awards® category achievement in visual effects, including the winner, Interstellar.

Foundry’s portfolio of products now includes three Sci-Tech Award winners—Katana®, Nuke® and Mari—as well as Sci-Tech award-winning motion estimation technology in the form of Furnace, which is fully integrated into NukeX® and Nuke Studio® .

Receiving an Academy Award is the pinnacle of creative and technology achievement in our industry and we are utterly honored to have the outstanding, innovative brilliance of the Mari team recognized.

Alex Mahon, CEO of Foundry

"Foundry is a home for the best and brightest talent, our singular focus is solving the problems of creative clients with the highest quality standards for their work. We create tools for the artists who spend their days crafting and pioneering Academy Award caliber films. Mari was created in the best spirit of the creative industries - with exceptional partnership, complex and innovative technology and state-of-the-art artistic requirements. Foundry and the Mari team are committed to continually innovating and improving our software and enabling even greater visual effects to be achieved."

Mari is developed to address real, pressing issues experienced by the VFX industry. With direct artist input throughout that process, The Foundry ensures that the tool can meet and exceed the requirements of complex visual effect pipelines. Mari allows artists to work quicker and with higher fidelity than ever before. The adoption of Mari across a wide range of visual effects, CGI and other graphics facilities has shown that it addresses a widely encountered problem in a best-of-breed manner.